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Theodoret of Cyrus

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

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On Ezekiel

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  1. Ezekiel 34:9-10
    These words predict the end both of the kingdom of the Jews and the priesthood. I will free my flocks, he says, from those who look after them badly, who have steered them with no kind of providence but have only continued to devour them. Therefore through our Lord and Savior they are granted salvation.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 13:34

  2. Ezekiel 34:16
    The words against the false shepherds have been hidden, as well as the prediction of God’s attentiveness to come. He turns his words to the flocks and teaches the useless shepherds how not to fall back in any way in defending them.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 13:34

  3. Ezekiel 36:8
    I will strengthen the people’s hope, and I will make steadfast their expectation of good things to come, and they will return and enjoy those fruits that are produced by you.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 14:36

  4. Ezekiel 36:25
    He calls the pure water the water of rebirth, because we who have been baptized have received the forgiveness of our sins.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 14:36

  5. Ezekiel 36:26
    He means by these things a change of attitude. Your heart, he says, will incline to better things, no longer following your previous preference for what is worse. That “I will give” in no way damages free will, for by words and deeds and endless miracles, not only among them but in all races, so that they start to live piously; he persuades, he does not compel. And although he does not compel but persuades, he says that he has inclined their minds toward better things.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 11:14.36

  6. Ezekiel 36:27
    These things did not happen before the coming of the Lord Christ. Since they had three prophets after the return to Jerusalem, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, they were immediately deprived of the gift of prophecy. But after our God and Savior was made man and ascended into the heavens, and the Holy Spirit came on the holy apostles, through them grace was given not only to the Jews but also to all those from the peoples who came to faith. He calls a heart of stone one that is antagonistic and rebellious, and a heart of flesh, one that is compliant and obedient to what it is told, and is able to draw out the meaning of the divine writings … this is the mark of a spirit of grace, which assists our free will and ensures that what has been said proceeds in due course.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 14:36

  7. Ezekiel 37:1-14
    Again this is the spirit of contemplation; he did not see these bodies that were shown to him with his eyes, but he had them revealed to him by the Holy Spirit.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 15:37

  8. Ezekiel 37:7-10
    The proclamation, he says is made by me, by divine command. The bodies that were bound together came back to life, and they experienced a resurrection, and the multitude of those who rose again was not small.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 15:37

  9. Ezekiel 43:6
    He showed me that there was an angel who measured the building, and he showed me these things; and he was very like Michael, who was given the responsibility of looking after the people.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 16:43

  10. Ezekiel 44:2
    It is very likely that these words refer to the womb of the Virgin, through which no one enters and from which no one departs other than the only one who is the Lord.

    Commentary on Ezekiel 16.44

  11. Ezekiel 47:1-3
    Thoroughly instructed in sacrificial matters, after he learned that sacrifices have to be offered for sins in a figurative manner, the prophet was taught that two expiations of souls were made through water and spirit.

    COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 16:47

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